Cancer Centers

National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated cancer centers divide into three categories: Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers, Cancer Centers, and Comprehensive Cancer Centers.

Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers are primarily focused on laboratory research and often conduct preclinical translation while working collaboratively with other institutions to apply these laboratory findings to new and better treatments. These centers generally do not provide patient care, although they might be able to direct you to a center that does.

Cancer Centers are institutions that conduct cancer research and also provide patient care. They are recognized for their scientific leadership, resources, and the depth and breadth of their basic, clinical, and/or prevention cancer research.

Comprehensive Cancer Centers provide all that you would find at a cancer center. However, they provide an added depth and breadth of research, as well as substantial transdisciplinary research, which bridges different scientific areas.

Alabama

Birmingham
O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Arizona

Tucson
Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona
Comprehensive Cancer Center

California

Duarte
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

La Jolla
Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Salk Institute Cancer Center
Basic Laboratory Cancer Center

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Basic Laboratory Cancer Center

Los Angeles
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Los Angeles
Comprehensive Cancer Center

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Orange
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Irvine
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sacramento
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Davis
Comprehensive Cancer Center

San Francisco
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Stanford
Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI), Stanford University
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Colorado

Aurora
University of Colorado Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Connecticut

New Haven
Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine
Comprehensive Cancer Center

District of Columbia

Washington
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Florida

Tampa
Moffitt Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Miami
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Cancer Center

Georgia

Atlanta
Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Hawaii

Honolulu
University of Hawaii Cancer Center
Cancer Center

Illinois

Chicago
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University
Comprehensive Cancer Center

The University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Indiana

Indianapolis
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

West Lafayette
Purdue University Center for Cancer Research
Basic Laboratory Cancer Center

Iowa

Iowa City
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Iowa
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Kansas

Kansas City
The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas
Cancer Center

Kentucky

Lexington
Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky
Cancer Center

Maine

Bar Harbor
The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center
Basic Laboratory Cancer Center

Maryland

Baltimore
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University
Comprehensive Cancer Center

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Massachusetts

Boston
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Cambridge
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Basic Laboratory Cancer Center

Michigan

Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Detroit
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Minnesota

Minneapolis
Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Rochester
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Missouri

St. Louis
Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Nebraska

Omaha
Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Cancer Center

New Hampshire

Lebanon
Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

New Jersey

New Brunswick
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Comprehensive Cancer Center

New Mexico

Albuquerque
University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico
Comprehensive Cancer Center

New York

Buffalo
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center
Basic Laboratory Cancer Center

New York City
Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Cancer Center

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Cancer Center

North Carolina

Chapel Hill
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Durham
Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Winston-Salem
Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Ohio

Cleveland
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Columbus
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City
Stephenson Cancer Center, The University of Oklahoma
Cancer Center

Oregon

Portland
Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Pennsylvania

Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Philadelphia
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University
Cancer Center

The Wistar Institute Cancer Center
Basic Laboratory Cancer Center

Pittsburgh
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

South Carolina

Charleston
Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina
Cancer Center

Tennessee

Memphis
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Nashville
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Texas

Dallas
Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Houston
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine
Comprehensive Cancer Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center

San Antonio
Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio, University of Texas Health Science Center
Cancer Center

Utah

Salt Lake City
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Virginia

Charlottesville
University of Virginia Cancer Center
Cancer Center

Richmond
Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University
Cancer Center

Washington
Wisconsin

Madison
University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center